Today, December 26, 2016 is another holiday, and extension of Christmas. It is Boxing Day. Honestly I cannot explain the full import.
I am so grateful for one thing though. That is that I read the following lament by Dr Pius Adesanmi only today. . Walai, if I had read it hot off the press, it would have completely messed up my joyous Christmas spirit. We thank God for small mercies.
Eight years ago I made my first visit to Ghana in an effort to introduce the novel concept of broadband last-mile delivery over electric power lines. We had no immediate plans to see the Ghana Minister of Energy. When the issue was mooted, we were in conference with the head of Ghana Telecoms regulator. Small matter it turned out. A meeting was arranged and we found ourselves in his very unpretentious presence thirty hours later. Not in Nigeria.
It has been well documented that those who have empty heads are strangely enough not in a hurry to try to remedy the situation. Hence the average Nigerian legislator will keep quiet while Nigeria burns but will open up to vent on issues that he knows absolutely nothing about, like how to solve Nigeria's power problems.
Library, real, virtual, etc? Why bother? Whoever in this clime got ahead by being truly knowledgeable and ahead of his peers and constituents? There is a name for such people. Either troublemakers or "too-sabi." Nigeria hates such with a passion. I wonder then why we still complain when the misfits that we allow in government lead us exactly nowhere. No surprises here.
Thanks Pius for putting your observations here. Let's hope some will benefit.
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